Author name: Sandra Galvin

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”1989″ border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”medium” link=”http://www.sphereprogramme.ie/”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h2″ style=”false” color=”#393836″ size=”25″ font_weight=”inherit” font_style=”inhert” letter_spacing=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”18″ font_family=”none” align=”left”]SPHeRE NETWORK 2nd Annual Conference Call for Abstracts now open “Population health and health services research in Ireland: current trends and future directions” Monday 29th February 2016 Venue: RCSI[/mk_fancy_title][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][mk_button dimension=”three” corner_style=”rounded” size=”small” outline_skin=”dark” outline_active_color=”#ffffff” outline_hover_color=”#333333″

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_single_image image=”1918″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_border” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”large” link=”http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/TheNorthernIrelandNetworkforTrialsMethodologyResearch/SWATSWARInformation/”][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] The Northern Ireland Network for Trials Methodology Research is currently collating and maintaining a central repository of work relating to Studies Within a Trial (SWAT) or Studies Within a Review (SWAR). As outlined on their webpage, The SWAT and SWAR programme is

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   The HRB-TMRN are delighted to announce a welcome addition to the Clinical Trials Methodology Symposium lineup this September. Prof Craig Ramsay will highlight the important role of implementation research in RCTs such as embedding measures in trials that will help to elucidate how the trialled interventions may be scaled up into real practice. Prof Ramsay is currently a member

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″]Do you work in the area of Clinical Trials? Do you need training to improve your skills? Do you have an interest in patient recruitment? or are you intrigued by health economic evaluations? What ever the topic, whether you are a novice or an expert, we want to know what areas of training interest you! Please

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][mk_image src=”https://www.hrb-tmrn.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Sir-Iain-Chalmers-e1435328471918.jpg” image_width=”200″ image_height=”100″ crop=”true” svg=”false” lightbox=”false” frame_style=”simple” target=”_self” caption_location=”inside-image” align=”right” margin_bottom=”10″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] The HRB-TMRN are honored to welcome Sir Iain Chalmers in delivering his keynote address at the Clinical Trial Methodology Symposium in September. The James Lind Library: illustrating the evolution of fair tests of treatments Sir Chalmers is one of the founders

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″]The HRB-TMRN are delighted to announce The Gibson Hotel in Dublin as the venue for the Inaugural Clinical Trial Methodology Symposium which will be held in September (24th & 25th). Registration will open very soon. Stay tuned for further information.[/vc_column_text][vc_media_grid style=”all” items_per_page=”10″ element_width=”3″ gap=”5″ button_style=”rounded” button_color=”blue” button_size=”md” arrows_design=”none” arrows_position=”inside” arrows_color=”blue” paging_design=”radio_dots” paging_color=”grey” loop=”” autoplay=”-1″ item=”mediaGrid_SimpleOverlay” include=”1448,1447,1446,1445″][mk_padding_divider size=”50″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column

Congratulations to our @hrbtmrn Director Prof Declan Devane, who has just been announced as a recipient of one of the President’s Awards for Research Excellence 2015 NUI Galway. As well as Director of the HRB-TMRN, Declan is Professor of Midwifery NUI Galway and the Saolta University Health Care Group (Ireland). He is an Editor with the Cochrane Pregnancy

This year’s IRNN annual conference will be held on Thursday 12th November 2015. Call for abstracts is now open for oral and poster presentations. All research nurses and midwives are welcome to submit an abstract based on their clinical research (can be research undertaken independently or with colleagues as part of a team). GENERAL INFORMATION

Over twenty successful applicants to this years’ HRB Cochrane Systematic Review Training Course attended NUI Galway on June 25th & 26th. The course which was delivered by HRB-TMRN members Prof Declan Devane NUI Galway & Dr Valerie Smith TCD / NUI Galway. The course focused on all aspects of conducting a systematic review including; developing a protocol, assessing study eligibility and